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Good Morning, all
High cloud
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Good morning Michael and all
That's a pretty accurate summary – The UK going down the Tubes!!!
A clever cartoon from the perspective of the good people who expect their government to do the right things in managing the Country. Now, turn that perspective 180 degrees, add in an agenda, aka Change, that is being pushed daily by continuous bland proclamations of intent, but, is in fact, pure bullshit, and you have the current government's position of success.
Happening by chance? Employing people out of their depth as a cover for what's really going on has failed. We see you!
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Gross!
Woke you up!!
The simpering pygmies – spot on!
Cloak and daggers springs to mind!
Taking the piss out of the current shambolic European leadership with more than a touch of TDS.
Political satire is still not dead.
Why is Fonda Lyin there? I thought he was only talking to national leaders?
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Beebsplaining
Erastus☻
8h
A stone he crafted all by himself😡
Paleface
Beebsplaining
7h
Like Marley's chain
A Irwin
12h
OT; Mrs Connolly also suggested she is due to meet with the Donald Trump administration over a "free speech crackdown".
Nothing in the MSM regarding this discussion.
Strange the USA are aware of the details here yet 2TK was unaware of the details of the case 🤔
Something else that didn't cross his desk?
A world EAGLE today – yippee! And Good Morning, chums, and a big Thank You to Geoff for today's new NoTTLe site.
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Blimey, Elsie! Well done!
Thank you, kind Sir. (Courtsies). I must admit it was a most pleasant surprise. (Good morning, btw.)
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Many a true word spoken in jest.
Good morning, everyone.
Good morning.
Good morning all.
A slightly less cool start, a tad over 14½°C, dry, but dull and overcast with no wind.
Forecast to be cloudy all day and, with a load of washing just hung out, hoping for a dry day.
An excellent lead letter:-
My late Father was son of a mineworker from West Hartlepool. By hard graft and supportive parents, he took 3 degrees and rose to Professor Head of Department and Deputy Vice Chancellor at University.
All that education was at the end of the War, when it was still unusual to enter University in the UK.
Well said, Terry!
Mike b
7h
Lucy Connolly. This is where it all started, political interference in the judiciary. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/925dd8be934a22ca782c250ea9f69c4bda5e75014922a4f0926609fb43273c02.png
Starmer could have reduced the tensions so easily, but no. He opted to exacerbate them with his references to Far Right Thugs and never once seriously addressing the horror and anger that was being felt at the time.
The absolute measure of the PM. (I couldn't bring myself to use the word 'man' in this context)
He seems incapable of any kind of human emotion.
Starmer is intellectually challenged.
He seems to have been able to pass all the exams he needed for a legal career by rote learning. He appears to have no original thoughts at all and his facial expression is dead-eyed.
A person with no hinterland.
Apparently he doesn't have a favourite book, piece of music, place to visit etc….. dead-eyed and dead to the world around him.
Big Ange maybe chavvy, but at least she likes a good bop around.
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Yes – she's chavvy but at least she seems relatively normal. He is like an automaton.
He is a Molotov.
Not a good look for a 45 year old.
Meanwhile Axel Rubikuana the throat slasher gets his TV and DVDs back in his cell in the hope these privileges will make him behave.
Personally i would like to see him tortured to death…slowly.
The Lucy DT interview
Lucy Connolly interview: ‘People hoped prison would break me. It didn’t’
In her first interview since her release, the childminder reveals her anger towards Keir Starmer and her plans to reform the justice system
https://archive.ph/sK4jE
'Morning All
Start with one for Wibbling
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Rest
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Love the dog one.
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Ah, the place where 'being grassed up' takes on a whole new meaning!
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Do they accommodate spread betting?
Where you will be accommodated on a chair for 24 hours while you wait.
Or you could really hit the jackpot and end up on the slab.
By Tuesday, will one, two or three "revellers" have crossed the Styx?
Any advances?
Re-reading the DM article on GCSE results which highlights the achievement of Michaela School and this caught my eye:-
"Another top grades bonanza"? Am I the only cynic who thinks "Grade Inflation"?
You are not the only cynic!!
All shall have prizes!
yes, Melanie Phillips was spot on with that book.
After listening to the interviews with Lucy Connelly, I think Starmer/Hermer made a HUGE mistake in selecting their target. The support that she is going to attract nationwide via her personaliity and good sense will be bolstered by some big hitters around the world who all want to see the Starmer Marxist Gang crash and burn.
Really? I have to admit, I found her personality rather off-putting in the two interviews (and before someone makes a snarky comment, I'm sure the feeling would be mutual). However, I would not employ a childminder who claims to be looking after 6-8 children and still finds time to be in the top 0.1% of twitter accounts by activity.
Nah. I wouldn'r expect someone like you to like her.
What's that supposed to mean?
Michael has to annoy at least 12 people a day otherwise he doesn't sleep well.
Even on NOTTL…standards of discussion are slipping to the extent that people feel entitled to insult those who disagree with them.
Please note that I am not insulting those of you who believe the story, even though I think it’s the biggest, steamiest pile of horseshit since covid.
There something really odd about all this.i have just posted this above.
https://miri.substack.com/p/languishing-lucy-liberated-now-leave
although I admit that the leaving-in-a-taxi is not of any great importance, the 'authorities' would not want her to leave to acclaim. It does however set the scene and direction of the following argument.
Miri seems to be avery nasty person looking for more clicks.
She gave a good overview of the political influence on her treatment by the judicial system. There is so much blithering about not making comments lest you prejudice the trial yet Sir Kweer made his thoughts quite clear. Hope she becomes a focus of the fight back for free speech.
The government are more than happy to listen to autistic teenagers like Thurnburger. Lucy Connolly will be ignored.
At their peril.
Probably will be recalled for rabble rousing against the the guvment. If you want to see someone poking the establishment, see Alex Bellfield. A bit deranged, I suspect he enjoys prison food.
Nowt better to do
8h
Correct, we all need to look right. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d29c6dd14d97dee9bd19f3ea283fc361d355c037e6c4bc320562ff7f6e7dd2f0.png
Given the number of pedestrian crossings that were painted in alphabet soup colours, the Council of whereever that is do not have a leg to stand on when decrying the crosses.
With many fading and wasting road markings around the country and of course the ever increasing pot holes. The far left councils seem to have found the time energy and productive inclination to over paint the Red St George's crosses.
Keep it going Keep making sure that the lefties are cross.
Good Morning!
Dear Readers: Stop Hiding in the Today Page and Come Stir the Pot Where It Counts! Your Magazine Needs You! You are not out of the dog house yet, as we didn't quite get the two hundred comments we hoped for yesterday, but you can make up for it today by commenting on Iain Hunter's follow-up to yesterday's article on the Epping Forest judgement, Hotel Britain to Free Home Britain , on how the insane 'asylum hotel' business originated and what it's likely to evolve into. Needless to say, Blair, Soros and Serco get dishonourable mentions. So, rally round the flag folk, and get commenting under this fascinating article.
Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 33.8%; Solar, 8.5%: Wind 7.5%; Imports, 25.4%; Biomass, 11%; Nuclear 11% and Miscellaneous, 3%. Gas produced more than double the percentage of our power than wind and solar combined – but we also imported over a quarter of our power requirements.
freespeechbaclash.com
411730+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Telegraph View
Sir Keir Starmer has hung farmers out to dry
Labour’s policies threaten the future of Britain’s countryside and rural economy.
The plain to see fact is the political anti British TOOL is trying to break the very backbone of the Nation.
The economy takes second place when your lifeline to the Countries larder is severed.
We all have a steak in backing, supporting, the Farmers via IMHO the Farmers Food and Freedom party bring it on par with the Reform party, see it as a safety net, in case, insurance party as we have put all our eggs in one political party basket in times gone by only to find, repeatedly that
repeating the same failure time after time
is the act of criminal insanity.
Sirloin, fillet, porterhouse?
411730+ up ticks,
Morning S,
I pointed it out to the missis in typing and asked, “who would be the first to bite”
Country's.
Only one country under discussion.
Morning, Ogga.
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Funny? Funny how? Funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you?
Good to admit when one has made a mistake, and put it right.
SIR — The St George’s Cross has been painted on roundabouts in various parts of the country, with councils complaining about the expense of removing it (report, August 20).
I don’t recall such concerns when local authorities plastered Pride, LGBT and rainbow markings all over the place, including on zebra crossings.
I actually think the St George’s Cross markings are an improvement on otherwise bland roundabouts. There would be plenty of volunteers ready to repaint the worn-out ones.
Brian Thorne
Shillingstone, Dorset
Very true, Brian. Those (mainly Left-wing) councils cannot afford to repair potholes in roads yet they can immediately muster up a crew to repaint over English flags on roundabouts (and remove pennants from lamp-posts). Yet they fund the painting of all manner of 'woke' crap everywhere you care to look!
This is because they are a cartel of politically-motivated Left-wing scum, placed into power by an idiotic and clueless public who have been brainwashed* into thinking that living in a socialist enclave is good for them.
[*I say 'brainwashed', even though the majority just have a vacuum between their ears.]
My local Labour-run council has taken the pragmatic decision to leave the flags in place.
https://www.thecomet.net/news/25411710.stevenage-council-leave-st-georges-flags-put/
Sensible decision.
We NEED no other foreign flags flown from our flag posts .. we must keep our own flag sacred and meaningful .. it is our homeland flag. Leave it be , and if people want to paint red white and blue , so what , when the rain comes the paint will soon wash away… but for goodness sake allow us to build our sandcastles and give us the ability to decorate and tell the authorities , this is our home .. do not dictate what we can or can't do .. by us showing our famous flag .. whether it is by lorry/ car /ship / plane / train / scarf / t shirt or whatever .. don't deny us our identity , please.
It's not allowed in Norway to fly anything other than the Norwegian flag or pennant (Vimpel) unless you have an official visitor from abroad.
411730+ up ticks,
Just so you know if you think you have the right quallies to join via the lab/lib/con mass uncontrolled / governing body controlled morally illegal invasion coalition.
https://x.com/Golden_boy223/status/1958974140276527271
Good morning Ogga
https://x.com/RadioEuropes/status/1958581013103161460
John Simpson?
Why go back? It's not civilised, there are no bennies, the public transport doesn't work, housing is lousy, and so on.
Be like that here soon!
They’re not interested in a better life. They come to conquer. Odd that people don’t get that. The evidence is clear.
Most people with a brain get that Sue but unfortunately none of them are in government
It is simply a traditional invasion, of the old-fashioned, historical type, but because the invaders do not arrive in military uniform bearing arms, people refuse to see this. They take refuge in denial.
The evidence is in the name; islam = submission.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15026181/decade-changed-Europe-refugees-mass-arrivals.html
A quote from the article:
Spanish coastguards were brought back from retirement to search the coast off Costa Blanca's beaches to scoop up migrants sailing to Europe from the north African coast.
One evening in Alicante, as yet another coastguard boat carrying them headed for shore, I heard a group of schoolboys remarking ruefully: 'The Moors are invading us again.' They knew the history of the sixth-century Muslim conquest of their region.
There is hope. We’ve been told so many lies.
The Cordoba Myth. There was no golden age of Moorish enlightenment in Spain. It was pure savagery.
The Spanish Inquisition and The Crisades were about Christian chauvinism. No, they weren’t.
The Inquisition was about targeting the enablers so that the Moors couldn’t regroup. Approximately 10 thousand were killed, not the revisionist 92 million. Hell, there were fewer than 90 million people in the whole of Europe at the time.
The Crusades were about defending Jerusalem after the Arabs attacked, not attacking Jerusalem for the sake of conquest. Sadly the crusaders were too few and ill-equipped.
The worst country in the world for female genital mutilation is Ethiopia … and they are 90% Christian.
Ethiopia is just one of those good old fashioned backward countries. Evolution takes time, whether of mind or body.
Yet another reason to ditch MicroSod!
Microsoft, as a provider of cloud services to the U.S. government, is required to regularly submit security plans to officials describing how the company will protect federal computer systems.
Yet in a 2025 submission to the Defense Department, the tech giant left out key details, including its use of employees based in China, the top cyber adversary of the U.S., to work on highly sensitive department systems, according to a copy obtained by ProPublica. In fact, the Microsoft plan viewed by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations or foreign engineers at all.
The document belies Microsoft’s repeated assertions that it disclosed the arrangement to the federal government, showing exactly what was left out as it sold its security plan to the Defense Department. The Pentagon has been investigating the use of foreign personnel by IT contractors in the wake of reporting by ProPublica last month that exposed Microsoft’s practice.
Never used that crap in this house.
Morning all 🙂😊😉 second attempt of the day.
A more reasonable time to make a shout, sunny 13c.
Labour are filled with destruction for our existing cultural aspects. They appeared to be filled with hate for our long established customs and way of life.
David Starkey was also seen having a dig at the instigator of all these problems, B lair.
There are currently many clips on FB showing (dreaded social media) that the British indigenous are rising up against all this. But our pathetic MSM doesn't appear to have the honesty to broadcast any of it.
The MSM is ultimately owned by the very people the British indigenous are rising up against. So they are not going to add fuel to the fire that is just starting.
It’s the playing out of the poem “When the English begin to hate”. We’re slow but injustice and unfairness really ignite our anger.
And Norman and Saxon
1
"My son," said the Norman Baron, "I am dying, and you will be heir
To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for share
When he conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and a nice little handful it is.
But before you go over to rule it I want you to understand this:–
2
"The Saxon is not like us Normans. His manners are not so polite.
But he never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right.
When he stands like an ox in the furrow – with his sullen set eyes on your own,
And grumbles, 'This isn't fair dealing,' my son, leave the Saxon alone.
3
"You can horsewhip your Gascony archers, or torture your Picardy spears;
But don't try that game on the Saxon; you'll have the whole brood round your ears.
From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They'll be at you and on you like hornets, and, if you are wise, you will yield.
4
"But first you must master their language, their dialect, proverbs and songs.
Don't trust any clerk to interpret when they come with the tale of their wrongs.
Let them know that you know what they're saying; let them feel that you know what to say.
Yes, even when you want to go hunting, hear 'em out if it takes you all day.
5
"They'll drink every hour of the daylight and poach every hour of the dark.
It's the sport not the rabbits they're after (we've plenty of game in the park).
Don't hang them or cut off their fingers. That's wasteful as well as unkind,
For a hard-bitten, South-country poacher makes the best man-at-arms you can find.
6
"Appear with your wife and the children at their weddings and funerals and feasts.
Be polite but not friendly to Bishops; be good to all poor parish priests.
Say 'we,' 'us' and 'ours' when you're talking, instead of 'you fellows' and 'I.'
Don't ride over seeds; keep your temper; and never you tell 'em a lie!"
Good advice. Doubt if the Harmer has ever even heard of it let alone understood the message.
What with AfGaff, a loathsome, vindictive government and a foreign invasion, Kipling is definitely coming back into vogue.
The Beginnings
Norman and Saxon
The Young British Soldier
You could have stopped after “filled with hate”.
Is this real, or just a piss-take?
https://youtu.be/xf6h4yjDKQ0?si=QjUHhJLRm_W9EFNC
Fair play, when you are fresh out of Uni & College of Policing.. you have to explain what an allotment is.
It is real, saw the story last week.
It's real.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27w9wp4e6o
It seems that when carrying gardening tools in a public place, it's a good idea to keep them concealed.
Good morning all, another muggy night here .
Dead mouse on the doorstep
No sign of rain , 17c.. and the tractors are busy as the specialised harvesters are bringing in the maize .. wagons of crushed maize , shredded greenery and meagre cobs smashed to bits .. but the scent of the crushed maize as the tractor trailers drive by is delicious , truly , and I always wind down my car window as the machinery drives by .
The maize harvest will be the last crop before the farmers then plough and get ready for winter/ spring crops ..
If it is like last year with the heavy rain we had in the autumn , , we witnessed the sporadic growth in fields where the rain had made areas unworkable .
Locals say things are bad for farmers , the animals are already eating the food / hay and silage that was meant to be for the winter months , there are lots of hungry grazing animals as well as horses .. the fields look dried up and golden , nothing there , and the cereal crops had hardly any growth ..
Don't want to be depressing , but we ain't seen nuttin' yet!.. as the song goes .
I keep several large trays of fresh water scattered around the garden for all the crawlies .
Though we should all support our farmers the weather is never quite right as far as they are concerned.
Good morning.
The stud has been feeding the mares and foals hay as well as balancer for months. My horse who likes soft going has been running on the all-weather. I hope we do get some decent rainfall although it will be too late for me pastures. Grass loses its goodness after the end of August.
We had meat & veg left for us in the living room – a dead shrew (unchewed) and tail-leaves (leaves that get stuck in longhaired cat's tails).
Most thoughtful, but by the time I'd found them, we'd already had breakfast!
We had meat & veg left for us in the living room – a dead shrew (unchewed) and tail-leaves (leaves that get stuck in longhaired cat's tails).
Most thoughtful, but by the time I'd found them, we'd already had breakfast!
SIR – You published two interesting and informative articles – one by Tim Sigsworth (report, August 20), the other by Patrick Galbraith (Comment, August 20) – on the ignorance of rewilding advocates.
I live 600 feet up in the Pennines, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Once, regular controlled burning (or swaling) of the hills was carried out by landowners in the spring. This removed the dead thatch of the previous year, with the soot returning to the soil to feed fresh grass growth.
Now I look up at the moorland and see dead, straw-coloured, totally useless grass: no new growth, and no chance of the reappearance of sphagnum moss. It is a tinder box just waiting for a spark.
Why is this madness not being challenged?
Peter Yarnall
Milnrow, Lancashire
How many of you can remember stubble burning .. after every harvest .. stubble burning cleared and cleansed the fields .
Now the farmers lime the fields or spray muck everywhere , and the rank rancid stink of urine lingers for days
Yes – I remember stubble burning – choking smoke and fumes for weeks.
Lucy Connolly. A different point of view.
https://miri.substack.com/p/languishing-lucy-liberated-now-leave
I don't think the travelling-home-in-a-taxi event is significant, it was obviously required that she leave with as little fanfare as possible. However the rest is interesting.
My head is spinning. I feel fatigued, tired with it all, everything. I do get a sense we are being played. But perhaps I am simply late to the party.
Good morning Poppiesmum.
Phew , I have followed the link and read the Substack article .. I am confused .com , totally .
Are we being fed fairy tales , you know , Red Riding Hood , or Three Billy goats gruff, or The Ginger Bread man , what on earth is going on ..
The news reminds me of one of those little snowy glass globes that have a sweet little scene inside, shake it and watch the snow etc ..
Is there still a department in government for tweaking human behaviour and response , I forget the real title, but there was something during Covid ?
I searched on Nudge Unit and got Behavioural Insights Team.
Look up propaganda unit in Dunstable.
The Nudge Unit? More like the secret department for psychological warfare. They had one during the war and if it was ever disbanded they will have resurrected it. It used to be at Dunstable.
The Nudge Unit, I think it was called, Belle. The thing is, I can see her point – there is something odd going on here, I have always thought this and the media is not in the habit of reporting the truth of a matter, ever, it is there for propaganda and manipulation. What is also odd is that her husband was also involved very early on in a covid ‘nudge’, I can’t remember exactly what it was now. My head is spinning with it all. It reminds me of how I felt over the McCann débacle – so much confusing and contradictory information.
Well clearly she did speak out – to Allison Pearson and another (name?) so obviously not gagged.
I find that very surprising. I'd bet that she's been warned not to be too outspoken, though.
What could the government actually do?
I mean realistically, not theoretically. (I know this bunch are a gang of vindictive dead eyed ideologues and are capable of pursuing their dogma to destruction, so national götterdämmerung is perfectly possible.)
Yes, they could shove her back into gaol. Yes, they could send round an intimidation squad.
Yes, they could threaten her husband's career or her daughter's education.
But the case is now so infamous – and not just in Blighty where the media are easily cowed – that any action against her would be publicised throughout the world.
We are on a day out. Beachy Head.
Hope the weather is better than when I visited the place a couple of years ago. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf3a1bf0909320f33b80bca2d7f11a96845aefd951ef91fe2c84712d6d2b9203.jpg
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https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/83880ddc28de35972471d4d3177e4ff6beeb9fc00510ff93d70245d222d3c2b6.jpg The day after, when I walked up from the other side, was much better.
Sunrise after a VERY stormy night https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5da26e7ed2499c443e5b212bb0be05fd226604741eed252f37022d20120acccd.jpg Looking over the Seven Sisters https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/84e4aee721ee691219244c6fd690c349b65fc8761121eb744af508e08fdf72e0.jpg The lighthouse that got picked up and carried to a new location https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/821902c9d5e84df13a1dbce6a4c304a4e6b1bdbe335e63fdf3a53a36aa898a9c.jpg And a butterfly https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/628ae3123717781c9731b2068645a189760b93183012d4ce23402fc0f2255b31.jpg or two https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91ff49a06b24f552dba13b7a7d31fc651a32f69a9cf04911f013adadbfddaa6f.jpg And a bit closer to the old lighthouse https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cd159157fb4b36830a2eebacfedbf6a00db9140e935547cdc43f6e4ea17fbd4c.jpg With an example of why it was moved https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5823e395cfee717a7c75a82ffb553c720e5cf83999f1bdaf75f0037417fd8e35.jpg And a last shot as I walked back to the Van. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ab77748e9fd9bd8447db6d7294e620095320485d1d1a9c6b7c38aeaad639638c.jpg
Be sure to visit the Bomber Command memorial and apologise for our government. Over 55,000 air crew were killed to keep us from tyranny.
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Beachy Head was often their last sight of England.
Not planning to jump I hope?
Phew!
Several 10 litre bucket loads of soil removed from the ledge and I've now got one min-bag full.
Need another mini-bag to fill.
Phew indeed, Bob! I haven’t got dressed yet! I am still in my dressing gown finishing my coffee!
I'm dressed and eating my breakfast………. OH is sweeping the kitchen floor.
I mopped mine yesterday. Faute de mieux. I had to defrost the fridge freezer.
I am waiting for the water to warm up for my shower!
Good morning Conway .
Good morning, Maggie. Chin up!
Good heavens Bob , you are certainly a hard worker , wouldn't life be simpler if you just moved home?
Nah! I'd get bored!
Gawd; having read that, I'll have lie-down.
I can't even pick apples today. I'm sitting resting my back and playing my guitar.
Morning everyone. Taking it easy today as I have a very busy day tomorrow.
Labour hates aspiration. The worst sin is to want to better oneself. If they knew about it, I bet they’d be burning copies of John Halifax, Gentleman.
Busy day coming up today – I've invited the neighbours (left and right) to dinner so a bit of work to do………..
What are you doing for dinner?
Lamb.
Nice, if expensive. When i do it they get Noisette.
We’re having shoulder. It’s been in the freezer for a while, waiting for an occasion.
Are you slow cooking it so timing doesn't matter?
(My fave cop-out.)
A fairly low oven I think. Won’t spit so much either. There’s only part of the bone in it. “Easy carve”.
Me too. Saturday evening is my usual treat of Spaghetti Bolognese with a glass of Chilean Merlot, followed by gooseberry crumble with double cream. So I will leave the lamb for Bank Holiday Monday. And for today my main chore is to prepare another saucepan of Bolognese sauce which usually lasts me for at least three Saturdays.
Nice, but not much of it.
I make my own. Three boned out chops each. Curled up and held together with toothpicks.
We used to serve it quite often in my catering days……. a long boned out loin tied up with string and then cut into bite sized pieces. Nice and tender but I prefer shoulder.
Yes. Shoulder will have more flavour.
It smells good………
au revoir la France, la Grande-Bretagne ensuite
Expert: Islamists are infiltrating French politics
French political analyst Nicolas Monti explains to Steven Edington how immigration has transformed France.
Summary
France passed the tipping point.
22% of electorate. Largest Muslim population in Europe.
2 years away from the next election.
Leftie Islam alliance will keep out any Right wing party.
integration of 3rd gen migrants impossible. too late.
Michel Houllebecq's 2015 novel Submission playing out.
entryism strategy into established parties. brotherhood trying not too worry society.
The New Palestine is in Marseille.. 52% of the residents are no longer French but ethnically Muslim refugees.
Birmingham ten years behind.
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On the stern of Mianda we sported the red ensign as you can see in the photo (and the other flags are shown under the text)
Just below the first cross trees on the starboard side we displayed a courtesy flag of the country in whose waters we were sailing; on the port side we displayed club burgees such as those of the St Mawes Sailing Club or the Cruising Association. We also used to display the RNLI pennant before it became an organisation to assist with illegal immigration into the UK.
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In addition to the ensign on the stern we would also have been showing the burgees at cross-tree level and
A Spanish courtesy flag as we were in Spanish waters. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6a9986e5db66fdb29dd7bac279ff250deab6d1f1243a3db3cce8110be7968913.png
The Spanish flag
and our other pennants. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dddcb92ed297e3a16ba039684eb3832905d9eeb61ccee65ec1928d3138286c32.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6ad87e325eb1060776a48a132025309cbfda363066352cf43bea8b3e20ac2d43.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/34b51db60fcc776e05c33efcb437e6b15184ee6c2e3bd38dfda9266c7c7f3a7b.png
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a4cc7f4452ab996da761d061b9378d06e33a80949578bbbae3d2638931caddf6.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e7d0ac941941d55734bf113e6f0d95d473c1b01fc01412b6092ff535e1a5642e.png These two are my flags: my DNA is fixed in both.
I have one of each draped in my studio!
In the meantime islam is at least one thousand years behind.
I cannot believe what has happened in Austria.
And gets another year behind every year.
La France Soumise indeed.
Good Moaning.
To quote Uncle Bill, no news, I see.
We haven’t seen Uncle Bill yet this morning?
Good morning Sue,
BT is having a rest , he and his dear other half are busy with other things .
I think the news is so depressing , and all of us are helpless , apart from commenting and then I do hope no one is listening in on our conversations !
He's taking a break Sue. He seems to have had enough of the current situation that we have in our country.
He is out clambering up streetlights and attaching flags and working on a pro bono service for TR. Very busy chap….!
Not using a ladder, I hope.
He's been given permission to take off.
He is taking some time out to do some gardening with the MR because the news is so depressing. His last post was Thursday evening usual time.
I have talked to two people in real life, both of whom are very aware, who say they've given up the alternative media because they feel it's full of material that is trying to provoke an emotional reaction from them, as the legacy media does. They're both focusing on real life.
I noticed above that Richard said the same, that he's taking a break for that reason.
I think it's healthy to keep one's sanity.
Too late for me, BB2 :-)))
Indeed. I have been thinking the very same over the last few days. It is all too much, and yet I have an almost compulsive need to know in order that I can take evasive action so that I don’t literally walk into Trouble.
I think we can take it that there is a lot of deliberate pot-stirring going on at the moment. The end of the current fiat currency run is too important not to be managed down to the last detail. I try to avoid the “alt news” videos with lots of exclamation marks!! and follow financial commentators. From my financial commentators I get that they think a bond crisis is imminent. The weekend of 20th September has been mentioned. Surprise surprise, the big free speech demo in London is the week before.
I would try to decouple from Telegram style news and videos and make sure you’re as well prepared for unrest as you can be. Few of us can do more than that.
The news is all the unrest around our country Anne, but I'd suggest the government are controlling the media and don't want the British indigenous population to be aware of it.
A lot of it is on Facebook.
Where abouts on F/B , Eddy, I have seen nothing .. can you give me a link please x
There is a page for Flag Force.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579396444591
I can never re-find the pages TB once I've looked they seem to vanish.
I avoid politics on Facebook. It's rife with TDS.
TDS??
Trump Derangement Syndrome?
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I had my hair cut yesterday. Does that count?
Fringe news, I'd say.
VG! I almost curled up and dyed…..
I had mine cut on Tuesday. I am way a head of you. 😀
How odd, Stormy, so did I.
What the hell are you doing..?
An Austrian court has ruled that Sharia law is now legally binding in civil disputes
Feel that? The Winged Hussars spinning in their graves.
Not to mention John III Sobieski (Gates of Vienna) and Charles Martel (Battle of Tours).
Who will give us victory in the battles of Tower Hamlets, Birmingham, Bradford, Luton, Telford and countless other places?
Two parties to a contract agreed, beforehand, that in the event of dispute, an arbitration panel would decide according to Islamic law. One party rejected the outcome of such an arbitration and took his complaint to a Vienna court, where it was decided that the decision of the arbitration panel was valid. The complainant was foolish to agree to that contractual term.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/08/austrian-court-allows-use-of-islamic-sharia-law-in-private-contracts/
Ten year anniversary of "Wir schaffen das"
Thanks Angela
Good Morning Folks,
Bright start here and warming up now.
41173 up ticks,
Good positive thinking after all market stalls are only once / twice a week a farmers shop with a peppercorn rent is far better than empty premises, surely.
The alternative could very well be a shop full of potential foreign troops in waiting.
https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1958822366303461484
Our Farmers Market is only once a month, although we have farm shops dotted around.
https://x.com/1867Paulie/status/1958955572377919645
Lucy Connolly to meet Trump officials for talks on free speech
Former childminder will meet with Sarah Rogers, the nominee for Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, on Saturday
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/23/lucy-connolly-trump-officials-meet-free-speech-sarah-rogers/
BTL
The way that Starmer instructed the legal system to clamp down on ordinary people whom he branded as "far right" was a clear abuse of power for which he should be held criminally responsible.
The foundations of a democratic society depend on the maintenance of a clear separation of powers: the judiciary, the the legislature and the executive. There is no doubt that Starmer has violated this and he should suffer the severest of consequences.
All this destruction, abuse of power and awfulness by Starmer&Co is to make us reject any idea that we are capable of, nor would we want to, govern ourselves ever again. It all deliberate, to send us rushing into the arms of the NWO/WEF government t deliver us from this evil.. Starmer does not have his eyes on a 2029 election because there won't be one. His prize lies in Davos, with the WEF. He is not interested in the UK, he has stated as such. Our only hope lies in forcing a GE in some way in the next year or so.
Trying to work out how the countries of Europe that allow so many people to pass through their countries while directed towards the channel will not take any of them back and do not legally have to, yet they let them in.
Countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa will not take their nationals back, they do not legally have to.
Yet when these people arrive here on our shores we are bound by international laws that will not let us return them or even to stop them from crossing the channel.
Yet Trump in the USA has no problem sending all his illegal migrants back and appears to have stopped those going there in the process.
Is there some sort of globalist two tier international law being enacted on our country, or are we just being hoodwinked by our political establishment into accepting that we are powerless to prevent people coming here at will, while some globalist agenda experiment is being played out?
I like Dave Allen's sketch where he faces a horde of invading immigrants coming up the beach and shouts "Land Mine" whereupon the leading group encounters a catastrophic explosion after which he says "No – Land Mine!".
Trump is quite capable of taking economic revenge on the countries that are near the US – and they know it.
Totally OT but while reading some other stuff on X I found this …
https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1959196415969628563
Sanctuary much.👍🏻
Our good friend Grizzly will doubtless be able to tell us the difference between an elk and a gnu – but I cannot resist the urge to post a song by Flanders and Swann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgPyqyh4X4
Getting confused between an elk (a deer) and a gnu (a cow) is a bit like getting confused between a skunk and an armchair!
Here we go…….
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2099152/sharia-law-legally-binding-austria
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I was always under the impression that Saint George was from the middle east. And the fair maiden was the British culture and the dragon was Islam.
That’s precisely why lots people don’t like all the English flag waving.
The pic is a Winged Hussar. St George came from Cappadocia, which is Turkey now but at the time was part of the Roman Empire.
I wasn’t sure 🤭🤗
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1624fa0ad1be10d50fb234443fb4ae2a56815864eab1a297afdad9ca58163f71.jpg Beachy Head…
This always reminds me of the first verse of G.K.Chesterton's The Rolling English Road.
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire,
And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire;
A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.
If beachy is an euphemism for bald then my head is pretty beachy too. However I always take comfort from the fact that baldness is caused by a high level of testosterone which means that bald men are more virile.
Too tall for your hair 🙂
'The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.'
Ah stapped off in Leith.
On ma way up tae Keith.
When I got lost in Beith
I was sick tae the Teith!
©2008 Grizzly
Baldness is inherited from your mother's side of the equation.
Don't jump!
Don’t push me!!!
Whose is the lovely smile?
You flirting ….. again !
Moi??? 🤣🤣🤣
Shows it's worth reading:
I survived by Eileen Dover.
There is a racehorse called Eileen Dover 😀
Is there one called Camein First?
Not that I know of, but Fast Finish didn’t start.
I'm puzzled why the case of the Menendez brothers, found guilty of murdering their parents in the US, featured in second place on BBC News when their application for parole was rejected. British interest in the matter is marginal and ought to rank lower than Lucy Connolly and the Notting Hill Carnival, both of which were later in the half-hour segment.
I thought exactly the same, Stig. I'd dever èven heard of them.
An unexpected manifestation of the special relationship.
It was a big thing here when it happened. From descriptions and evidence, it seems both brothers are psychos. Not sure they ever should be let out.
Good old BBC – always ready with an unbiased view!
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"Lucy Connolly you have pleaded guilty to the offence of distributing material with the intention of stirring up racial hatred."
Although Connolly tells us she felt pressured, coerced even, into making that plea, it is a bare fact. The BBC's headline is not incorrect, in that sense.
On fact, it was some Leftard activist who distributed it, from what i can work out
An interesting choice of charge though – the Black Belt Barrister did a very interesting commentary on the difference in charges between Connolly and Ricky Jones!
The cavalry has heard of our distress.
https://x.com/hosun_chung/status/1958896904823337067
What can he do? Electricity is already cheap to make. He can't avoid the 20p of taxes Milioaf slaps on it at source and in levies.
Energy generation cost isn't the problem. Government policy is..
None of this is ever aired on the TV news. Our country has been invaded aided and abetted by both our useless government's.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/i-am-a-migrant-hotel-protester-and-this-is-exactly-why-i-am-so-furious/ar-AA1L1WvB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68a995111e2a4eb48ac9c6f270f82c09&ei=57
411730+ up ticks,
Farage pledges five deportation flights a day under Reform plans
Party leader also wants to house asylum seekers in detention centres on military bases and potentially send some to Ascension Island,
ALL rhetorical, talks cheap and tax payers money buys houses for illegals.
Right "nige" i'll raise you two flights and a troop carrying liner,and so it goes on whilst at the very least 300 a day come ashore.
To many things can go wrong with the Reform set up via its political leading hierarchy, to entrust it with winning outright and without a safety net party in attendance.
We will be, in the next General Election voting IMHO contesting for the English worlds end/or not, it is of that much importance.
The Farmers Food and Freedom Party
Farage has unveiled a £10billion 'mass deportation' plan that would see five migrant flights leave the UK every day if Reform take power.***
Small print in minuscule text **
mass deportation of migrants = those arriving on or after July 1st 2029. Existing undocumentated citizens are free to roam & rape, and are as English as a sweet semolina halwa for breakfast.
I fear you are right!
This is why Farage got rid of Rupert Lowe.
Rupert Lowe argued that all illegal immigrants already in the UK should be deported and not just the new arrivals.
Of course Zia Yusuf persuaded Farage not to pledge to remove allillegal immigrants.
Yusuf clearly used to have Farage by the short and curlies but now he has him by the testicles and if Farage doesn't do what he's told to do Yusuf will squeeze.
Of course the next four years will see a very great surge in illegal immigrant numbers and this will be fueled by the fact that illegals will want to arrive in the UK before there is a Reform government.
500 a day would be a better target Nigel………..
All very easy to say, but where will they go? He will face an absolute onslaught from the state machine – what will be dismantled and in what order to prevent that? How long will that take?
I think we already know that that's not going to happen….
What is starmer harmer's problem ?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/suspend-echr-to-pave-way-for-migrant-deportations-blunkett-tells-starmer/ar-AA1L2Pqa?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=68a995111e2a4eb48ac9c6f270f82c09&ei=156
There are currently more than 50,000 migrants who have appealed against their rejected asylum claims.
Who are these migrants?
HO: Dunno.
Where are they exactly. Do you have records?
HO: Somewhere.
You are better to leave as is.. let it simmer.. let it get much much much worse.. leave it until the last straw arrives.. then Starmer & Labour will be seen as Too Little Too Late.
He's an absolute classic example of a complete Divot.
Some divots need to be replaced with new ones rather than putting the old one back in the hole.
I always replaced my Divots when I played golf. And stamped them in.
I used to tread in between chukkas.
I hope you cleared up the droppings after the game.
We don't actually need to. The problem is the utterly facile excuses used to chain the gimmigrants here and the intentional hopelessness of the state in rejecting them.
Government lawyers simply are not bothering.
Government lawyers are actively hindering.
Taken earlier this morning a side of Bath that I suspect most tourists won't bother to photograph….
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It's a hell of a drop down into the front garden and its large garden pond!
Safe from flooding ☺️👍
Possibly…..
Mummy's busy. Just go and play out the back…
LoL!
And think of all the shops with flats over, that are on bridges across railway lines.
WC is just a hole in the floor (lowest floor, one hopes!)
Dissent from within from Nuriyah and Lubna.. The Tommy R of the Muslim world.
The moment some in the West woke up..
.
https://youtu.be/xREodnh5_BM?t=224
This debate started with Charles Moore's column last Saturday "Perverted liberalism has led to neo-Marxism, perverted patriotism may yet lead to neo-fascism". Orr's response was followed by Daniel Johnson's "Russia is the new dividing line on Britain’s Right" in which he likened Farage to Mosley.
I don’t agree that Vlad was wrong to invade to protect Russian speakers from attack.
He had right on his side until 2022. Indeed, when Russians in the east of Ukraine started causing trouble shortly after the Kiev riots in 2014, he should have reined them in* and said "Let the West make its own mistakes." After all, it was the CIA under Barry O's command who started it all.
*Unless, of course, he instructed them.
After his nonsense last week, here's Charles Moore sounding a bit more like Charles Moore. He echoes David Starkey's recurrent theme of Britain's success and exceptionalism being built on property rights, personal initiaitive and small government keeping its nose out.
After his nonsense last week, here's Charles Moore sounding a bit more like Charles Moore. He echoes David Starkey's recurrent theme of Britain's success and exceptionalism being built on property rights, personal initiative and small government keeping its nose out.
Can farming families set up their business so that the business, rather the father and sons, owns the business? Would that get round the inheritance tax? I don't know – I guess people would have thought of that.
Presumably get clobbered with CGT when putting it in the company
It’s not just farmers (disgraceful as it is). All IHT is a disincentive to bother working
Yet Labour can't conceive of that. Their very charter demands that everything be broken.
"Their very charter demands that everything be taken." Basic socialism/communism.
Interesting to note that the way China has become a superpower was to basically dump communism, and let their entrepreneurs rip. They may still talk about the Communist Party, but they behave like capitalists – as long as one stays within the guard rails. Besides Communism does not have millionaires – which China does and lauds them for their efforts.
I read that China's success comes from combining the worst characteristics of capitalism with the worst characteristics of communism. I'm not well-enough informed to assess this, but it seems a pretty reasonable description of what the CCP has done.
That last paragraph isn't funny, and it's not a joke.
I think we understand the point he was making.
Labour do a cost benefit analysis? Joke of the century.
Faulty too?
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/atlas-robot-moves-spot-parts-from-one-place-to-another-as-humans-keep-playing-tricks-on-it-256239.html?utm_source=capital.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=brain-implants-can-decode-your-inner-thoughts#
Humans Keep Playing Tricks on It
Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
Moscow incident occurred because child ‘violated’ safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official
Err, when I've played speed chess some of the tables are a blur as hands whip out, move pieces, flick to the chess clock and the opponent is up before the other has even retreated off the board.
Very Russian. Break our rules and we take our revenge. Vlad would approve.
Im feeling fully enriched in Cardiff today. This guy hasn't really got his make up quite right, and oh, a shave might have helped… I think you had to pay to see bearded ladees in circuses in the past, mustnt grumble, its free now.. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f77c2c965698c1a009c73e53e9ad278d8ec3fabe836d18b9ee0401dd323b3603.jpg
Oh my skies. Brown is really NOT his colour.
Welsh drag-on?
You are on fire today Stig!
Tut, tut. She hasn't got her make-up quite right.
I remember paying to see one when the fair came to town. The tattooed lady was the other "attraction". Both nasty looking to a young boy. Or an old man…
Was awake far too early but emptied the washer, hung the washing out, tumbled the bed linen and folded that for putting away.
Lucy was up so we went for a walk, then came back and went out again. Dogs fed and watered at 8 and then I fell asleep again. I'm looking for a wireless keyboard and mouse. I like my logitech MX as it fits my bear sized hands better but it's getting on now.
I've found nothing better than Logitech. Using it with my Mac as I write.
Yeah, I've my eye on the MX S combination.
MX Keys keyboard and MX Master for Mac. Both better than the Apple originals.
https://www.whiteclouds.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/computers-and-electronics-g01-giant-whiteclouds-keyboard-large.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fMWOfx6IjdU/maxresdefault.jpg
I did a wash, then ran the dishwasher then took the dogs. Came back and emptied both machines and put the crocks away and hung up the washing.
https://twitter.com/PuppiesIover/status/1958992443719757984
And I thought this was bad enough!
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Hector was very often that pattern! Mad Harry goes for the long sock look! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3e3c7d203a0e2fc20af27c26f387ab7ac8b98af8618773d41a9d1f4888b87620.jpg
Is that Hector's House?
Yes! Zsa Zsa lives next door…
Mucky puppy 🐶
It was quite annoying when our lovely black Lab use to roll in fox poo. I had to take her out side and hose her down. It absolutely stank.
Fury as British Paralympians 'turn their backs' on Israeli team during their national anthem in 'hugely offensive' protest
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
I find it depressing that those unfortunate people who are physically crippled have been manipulated by HAMAS propaganda into being on the side of rapists, kidnappers and murderers who use hostages, and human shields and starve their own people claiming it is the Israeli State and Jews who are responsible.
I watched the Men’s Paralympic Basketball bronze playoff in Athens 2004. We beat the Dutch, which was unexpected but a brilliant game! Ade Adepitan was British captain, and the team were amazing. I’m shocked and disgusted how far they have fallen, and having been involved in basketball for over 25 years, I am very sad.
Keep politics out of Paralympic sport especially the sort of politics that approves of rape, murder, kidnap,starvation and the use of human shields.
The door to my Doctor surgery had a Palestinian/Pride flag on it. Saying everyone welcome.
I was rather annoyed.
I'm sure the young lady manning the desk wouldn't appreciate being gagged and tied to a tree. Raped repeatedly and then have her breasts sliced off.
Did you mention it at reception?
I didn't. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the young lady. I might complain to the practice manager though.
Trouble is they can get a bit shirty and take you off the books as a troublemaker.
Perhaps i will do it anonymously with a note. Attached to a housebrick.
👏🏻🤣
Blackmail..
The surgery has already refused me treatment for my blood clots in my legs because i smoke. At the same time treating drug addicts and alcoholics and anyone who arrives on a dinghy regardless of their health history.
I'd have ripped it down
I was tempted. Covered by cameras of course. As it is a bank holiday i might wear all black and a mask and pretend i am a phone thief. The plods aren’t interested in them so i would probably get away with it.
Keep politics out of sport altogether.
One of my niece's sons plays para basketball and has played for England 🏴.
Good for him! It’s a brutal and exciting game! Our younger daughter was a para basketball table official at the 2012 Olympics.
There was a small group protesting outside Waitrose this morning – telling people not to buy any Israeli produce. I thought – "sod off " – I'll buy what I want."
"Gaza is the rallying point for the Radical Left & Islam. However, what they really mean is.. They want the downfall of The West. This isn't spontaneous, this is funded by our enemies."
Dominic Cummings
beware Tabitha & Tristam.. you're being played like a fiddle.
They'll never figure it out.
I took great delight in buying South African grapes when I was told to boycott them.
There's far too much ignorance and sheer antisemitic hatred around. It's bally wrong.
Not only that but turning their prisoners into potential paralympians is considered normal practice.
David Lammy is off the hook. No fine for him for fishing without a licence.
I'm sure someone said recently that no one is above the law.
One could almost think we have a 2-tier justice system, couldn’t one?
Only if you’re an extremely thick, fat, race baiting Lefty. Apparently….
He apologised for the administrative error and bought licences retrospectively.
Isn't that rather like deleting an offensive tweet and apologising…/sarc
They originally were told that licences cannot be bought retrospectively, and that people will always be prosecuted! 🤔
The sad thing is if he had been prosecuted perhaps more folk would think twice about not buying a fishing licence?
I don’t think £14.70 is a huge amount for 2 rods! Here in central Scotland it’s a very popular pastime with a lot of youngsters and old folk!
I fished when i visited Skye. I didn't have a licence. Didn't catch any fish either.
I was glad of the no fishing sign just below the cemetery !
"Didn't catch any fish either."
Maybe tjhe sign was a misprint – the 'ing' was added in error.
It’s different when they do it.
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I saw a Muslim woman on a bus this morning with a baby buggy with two cats in it. Both were wearing harnesses with bows on and one was passive while she had to keep hold of the other. A first for me.
Elevenses.
MEOWSLIM.
Dear life. A cat shouldn't be treated that way. They get used to it. I said absolutely not to the pink bow the Warqueen wanted to put on Lucy.
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Ayup Pip
Petrol bombs you say…………
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Ah! It’s the kind and caring lefties at it again!
They used to be called Molotov Cocktails. Who renamed them?
The IRA?
Stig had better watch out. Doesn’t he live in Stevenage?
I am making Capricciosa pizza tomorrow. Artichoke hearts and quartered boiled eggs, Kalamata olives. Home made tomato sauce, ham and Buffala Mozarella.
How posh is me…..!
Think some sparkling will go well with that.
What time?
I''ll post you some. Frisbee style.
Yersse!
Me I'm planning:
Melon & Prosciutto
Lasagna with green salad (with Balsamic & Virgin olive oil dressing
2023 Penfolds Koonunga Hill, Sriraz / Cabernet (14.5% ABV)
Fresh fruit salad with genuine Greek yoghurt & honey…
Nice. Double fruit ! Are you making the Lasagna or is Charlie Bigham doing it?
It's a home made effort!
I expect it's huge then. I can't seem to make anything small.
Me neither! I still cook for 4+!
Ti’s but a portion for one of one made yesterday and maturing nicely in the fridge!
Don't you have a freezer? Batch cooking makes sense for dishes like that.
The rest is on the way to the Lake District for consumption this evening!
et moi, some poached haddock, with courgette and tenderstem broccoli.
I can be there whenever it’s ready! Just let me know!
I am at your beck and call milady.
Nice! Drool!!
I have cheated though. Can't be bothered to make the dough so i bought in.
It will still qualify as freshly made.
It's one of those pizzas you don't often see outside Italy. Too sophisticated for the sofa and take away crowd.
Not to be eaten by hand. Knife & fork to be used.
I even eat burgers with a knife and fork.
I handle food so much i am careful.
Very nice. I don’t know if I will do a beef casserole, hot pot or cottage pie. Depends on how I’m feeling when I get back and what ingredients I can rustle up to go with the recipe I can find.
Have something in reserve.
Omelette?
What's a "buffala"?
“Buffala,” is mozzarella di bufala, is a type of fresh mozzarella cheese made from the milk of Italian Mediterranean buffaloes.
Was that herd rounded up by Buffala Bill?
Had a thought about the planned IHT raid on Farms.
If Reform were to pledge that if elected they would pass an Act of Parliament that would restore ownership of the farm to those beneficiaries in the farmer's will – would it not make the land 'valueless' and therefore unsaleable?
Wouldn't it just be more practical to scrap inheritance taxes of any and all sorts?
This constant fiddling with the tax code is what has caused most of our problems. The thing is 17,000 pages long. More rational economies get by with one hundredth of that.
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1959145113948410230
He adds new depths to the definition of Git!
When you don’t have a bus service to speak of …
In voice of General Melchett: "Permission granted.."
Miriam Margolyes asks 'to be put down' in tragic end of life admission
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I'll do it !
Hammer or angle grinder, Miriam?
Wouldn't a Gillette do?
Too quick for the old witch!
I'm not shaving the gorilla first !
As another human being, she is simply immature, spiteful, childish and lacking in any sense of awareness of the depth of how wrong she is about everything she believes in.
Oh give it a rest, woman. First she’s had major heart surgery – no, she had a TAVI procedure. She now has a cows heart – no, she has a bovine valve. She only has six years to live – well maybe, given that she’s 84 now.
A cows heart. How appropriate.
I think John got a porcine one.
It's a shame really, she used to be quite funny but she descended into some foulmouth leftie harridan.
God Bless her, I will always remember her fondly as the Spanish Infanta in Blackadder…
https://twitter.com/TheHoleTweet/status/1958999727736832211
Please keep up Sue!
OK? With what?
(shaving….)
Veet!
Don't you mean Veet?
You didn’t refresh did you?
I have no reason to. I smell sweet. Even when i don’t………………:@)
Veet!
OK? With what?
Australia: however, how soon before Reeves starts eyeing this as another opportunity to garner in more tax to pay for the 'replacement'. Clearly she hasn't any idea how to stimulate the economy – difficult to achieve when you're importing thousands of people who rely on government largesse to merely exist – and stop the collapse that is heading our way.
https://x.com/Real_King_Elvis/status/1959051272407196004
Please don't suggest this Rachel as being told to feck off may cause offence!
"Clearly she hasn't any idea how to stimulate the economy"
Perhaps she should be sent dozens of these to stimulate her and take her mind off perverse ways to tax folk…?
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Is it used for facial massage like the 'Non Doctor'?
How would she define a bedroom? I would take out the bed and install a mini torture chamber for any passing civil servant prodnose.
*Nobody* expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope. Our *four*… No… Amongst our weapons… Amongst our weaponry are such elements as fear, sur- I'll come in again.
[leaves]
My “spare” bedrooms are in fact kennels.
Sounds like a recipe for a crasherang.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15027375/Moment-dog-walker-chased-street-men-minutes-stabbed-death.html
How – how can they claim to be not guilty when they blatantly committed the crime? Why is such even allowed to be entered?
Because that type will always be the victim, whining and wheedling in their cowardice.
Only one of them stabbed the victim. The prosecution has to show that it was a "join enterprise" and, therefore, that all three are guilty. Although the chase is on camera, the actual stabbing isn't. The accused also claim that the victim was threatening them and were fearful he would attack them. I don't believe this attempt to portray it as self-defence in the face of provocation, but the court will have to sift through all the evidence to show how improbable that line of defence is.
Surely they are accessories, accomplices even.
Almost certainly, but the two who did not wield the knife might get away with pleading not guilty to murder.
"Let him have it, Chris!"
Aman in Ontario has been charged with assault after he beat the crap out of a home invader on Monday night.
Apparently if you are woken by a burger at 1:30 AM, you must consider what is reasonable force before defending yourself.
Needless to say, tThe burgelr was out on bail, mustn't upset the offender of course.
I have sharpened umbrellas in my porch. An axe in my bedside drawer and a powerful air pistol in the other. Holed and quartered.
The Ricky “Slit their throats” defence? If you can’t use the race card, move straight to the ADHD one. If desperate, add PE in pants.
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A brace of Eagles?
Oh, I say, lacoste, Well Done!!!
Thank you, Elsie; I don't often catch an Eagle!
You got an Eagle didnt you, Elsie? You should repost it here!!
Why GGGG? If you change the order of the posts from Newest to Oldest you will see my result virtually at the top.
WWow Impressive. I had another case of pick a letter, any letter!
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When I got the word I thought you'd be a cert for an Eagle! 'just' a birdie here…..
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I wus lucky!
Chapeau, lacoste!
Merci vieux haricot !
Very good.
Took me four lines but I thought of your first line when completed.
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Er, three of us, molamola.
Well done, Elsie.
From the DT (Desperate Times!)
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The 'victim' must have been blind – it doesn't look much like a woman. Nice five o'clock shadow.
You should see his lower half! He’s wearing grey leggings and leaving nothing to the imagination! 🤢
Like 'Isla' ………
Either the bloke was desperate, blind or comedically confused.
As that is one ugly bloke.
Hearing the nice "crack" of someone engaging in target practice not too far away. We have few robberies round here, as everyone knows this is a huntin' and shootin' state. And if you pop a burglar in your house, there's none of this "proportional force" nonsense.
Right! I’m throwing down the horticultural gauntlet and challenging you all to grow a right-angled gladiolus!
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It's bent, Dame Edna.
Drewers Broop
Nice window embrasure.
Thank you! We have 7 of them!
Old house, I'd guess. When was it built?
According to the date on the sundial we found in the original garden wall it was 1789 or 1798!
Global warming move the time?
Nice! Lucky Lady.
Firstborn's place dates from 1770 or so. Has a lived-in feel.
We searched for nearly 18 months to find it! I absolutely love the house and garden.💕
Knows all about Revolution, then.
Mind it doesn't tip the jug over.
That's a Triffid…. Beware!!
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I think it’s trying to creep upstairs…
You've been hiding Dame Edna?
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Does anyone know about this? Blair's initiative, of course, all well planned a couple of decades ago.
https://x.com/PWestoff/status/1959182596782334414
I don't think Starmer is bright enough to think of that.
But those pulling his strings might.
Indeed. I doubt Starmer has ever had an original idea in his life!
Starmer is a civilian. He knows nothing about troop deployment, tactics and warfare. In this respect he is as useless as the hundreds of generals and admirals advising him.
In any event Putin has warned the west against putting troops on the ground in Ukraine. The idiot Starmer is tin-eared in addition to his many other failings.
And sending a large force from the British army "to monitor" in Ukraine would get loyal soldiers out of the picture.
No problem. We have many thousands of fighting-age men to take their place.
Quite…
But…but…will they be on ‘our’ side…?
B…But they are only flagging behind.
All the more reason to get this useless government out now.
Highly likely, I would have thought.
Bond market crisis due around 20th-22nd September.
13th September – large free speech march organised by TR – lots of agents prov. – 2TK declares martial law.
And of course, between now and 13th September, St Lucy Connolly will be stirring up people's anger.
Not a bad plan, if that is the plan.
I personally would not go near London on 13th September.
I'm on my way to Edinburgh that day.
Fortunately by car, so no need to go near London.
Route by train to Edinburgh avoiding London:-
Colchester-Ipswich-Cambridge-Peterborough-Edinburgh
This letter from today's DT strikes a chord: They used to say the same about Nigerian workmen when I lived there.
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Pretty! Very good, very cheerful!
Lovely. Meanwhile I am so fed up of being cold I have lit a fire. I am burning the old wood from when my studio was repaired. It’s only August for heaven’s sake!
Are you unwell? It's not that cold here. I had a fleecy top on but I've taken it off as I've been busy.
No I am in the wilds of the Marches. Thanks for the concern, though.
Crikey, I can't cool down!
It's 16 degrees C here.
Damned chilly here too, Conners. Been wearing a jumper since Monday (autumn started then), and finally worked out how to get warmth in the new heated floors – so it's all OK now.
I have resisted putting on the heating, but burning some spare wood has certainly raised the temperature.
Got a bit chilly yesterday evening, but not so cold today.
Lovely display!
One of my favourite films , ever apart from Zulu, Ice cold in Alex, and Mary Poppins , , yes and hundreds more !
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I don't know many films but I do remember that one!
Favourite film being The Italian Job?
Some of my favorite vehicles, including Minis and a Bedfor VAL 6 wheeler coach. Although I have to wonder how they managed to get the Minis that wet without them cutting out – a fault for which they were renowned. Both of ours did that on occasion. Either the ignition system (just behind the grille) or the petrol pump (under the boot floor) would pack it in if they got too wet.
Great movie though, which is more than can be said for the remake.
And written by Troy Kennedy Martin, he of Z cars fame.
Watford FC theme tune!
Good one. The other theme I always liked was Eye Level, the theme to the original Van der Valk series. I always enjoyed seeing that again as it depicted Amsterdam as I recalled it from living there in the late '80's. These days it is apparently just overrun with "refugees".
There's an Italian restaurant near here – they had a Fiat 500 lifted up onto a flat roofed part at the front of the restaurant over the door. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8c5c7503d5bbffd0d229f41f0f7db51bd51e42a9ba3279bea4d4b3f9c243aba6.png
We had a teacher at my school named Mrs German.. A bit of a difficult person to say the least. She drove a bubble car and the sixth-form boys carried and put it on a raised area about five steps up.
An Austin 7 on the Senate House roof was fairly impressive.
The distraction technique amused me.
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history/cambridges-most-amazing-ever-student-14554291
My Father's student class dismantled their hated lecturers car and reassembled it in his bedroom!
This was back in late 1940s. Cars were simpler then.
If I were her, I would have got into it and driven it down the steps!
I wish she had.
I was at Zandvoort in the early 1960's helping with a friend's FJ car. The Cooper mechanics picked up their minivan and dumped in on the dodgem car floor at the fairground. They found out that the Dutch and English don't have the same sense of humour…
The MoD is consistently late and over budget. The FRES tank is not only nigh 20 years late but it simply doesn't work.
Why are they being given a bonus at all, let alone considering their utter failure?
From ChatGPT:
So… a complete failure was abandoned and the failure folded in to other programmes tocontinue the funding of the complete failure?
That's the way the MoD works.
https://twitter.com/GaiusCa1igu1a/status/1959284497393799499
We say it a lot because it's true. Next he'll find a new country to be at war with – then we will always have been at war with them.
Phew! That's the 2nd mini-bulk bag almost filled and, other than cleaning up the existing top stones of the wall round the ledge to take some mortar to bed in the new stones, that's about me ready to do some cement mixing.
I don't have any sand at the moment, so that will be a phone call to Salisbury & Wood 1st thing on Monday to order a 1 ton bag.
Monday is a Bank Holiday. Will they be open?
Oddly, we are, but for our new residential customers and a couple of the bigger business ones (as they often plan maintenance over hols).
Oh bugger.
Tuesday then.
They'll be on the side of the socialist/Islamic government.
So that’ll be a no….
Pinch and Allah
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Being Jewdy won't be a good idea when the enema take over…
We both thought the credit card had only been used for my emergency dentist appointment and the home insurance. It seems that despite paying it off in full, various have rolled over.
Consequently I've just shifted 800 out of savings to clear it completely. I don't say that to boast. It's terrifying: I expected the bill to be about £200.
That's some money, man.
Expect bills like that for house renovation, but the dentist and insurance? Gee…
Insurance was only £150. Dentist £55. Thus the expected bill.
We pay it off monthly, in full. Seems we were clobbered by rollovers. Ah well. At least I checked. No new keyboard this month.
:-((
If you have a mble phone, you can download your bank/bldg socy app, register and log in as req'd keep a check on every transaction and daily balance, good luck 🙂
Only 5 in riot gear..
He's a terrrierist.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1959161199225962528
As it's public access, the gimmigrants are being paid for by the state, he is a tax payer in fact it is the state committing the crime. He is just taking what he has paid for.
Big fat state really is confused. It's not their money. It's ours. What they waste it on, is ours. We own them. They are staff. We are master.
What on earth is big government so terrified of people finding out? What are they hiding that they go to such appalling lengths?
It's called anarcho-tyranny.
A system of government that fails to enforce or adjudicate protection to its citizens while simultaneously persecuting innocent conduct.
Taking the pee of the Govt is forbidden.
Comment & LOL of the week.
He is probably the only person charged with burglary in this country this year…
Yep, that about sums it up. Every single thing is back to front.
And… he's stolen from himself!
Why doesn't the state want the British people to see the migrants?
Get this bigot fired.
Dontcha know this type of flag is very distressing to some people.. The Guardian said so.
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https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1959301658178986366
I just bought a union flag lapel badge (from a SSAFA stall, so double plus good).
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I get it, but where are the others? Or am I being thick?
You probably couldn't get 101 labradors to sit still for the photo-op.
I tried to get Kadi and Winston to sit still for a photo this afternoon. They both leapt out of the frame whether I was holding them or the photographer.
I spotted the meme immediately.🤔
Our lovely old lab……😢
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If only!
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Ha! Ha! Ha!
Love it!
Captain Sensible
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Great news: to mark the fiftieth anniversary of roadworks on the M42, between junctions 4 and 7, Helen Whateley MP has announced that they are to receive Grade II heritage listing. She is hopeful that the application for UN World Heritage status will now go forward. “This vital piece of our heritage is emblematic of modern Britain and I am delighted that we can now all share these roadworks and pass them on to future generations” she said.
That's very funny – I recall when I was working (around twenty years ago?) those bloody roadworks were in place…….
After IHT has been paid, of course.
Crimea River
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Starmer needs to emulate his Euro friends he’s so fond of.
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Great moniker!
They'll a cross the border into Austria they have accepted sharia law. !!!!
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Gosh, you're busy tonight! I'd have him more of a Winky Wanky…..
I've wasted the afternoon watching racing from York and making generous donations to Ladbrokes' Benevolent Fund. Between races I filch others' contributions on the web for later dissemination. Which ever way you look at it I have been a complete wastrel.
No time spent watching racing is ever wasted!
I've never watched a horse race or been to a racetrack, been to a bookies or entered a sweepstake in my life. The only time I went to Aintree was to watch a motor race.
Try it – it's fun :-)))
Never :o))
There’s no feeling like seeing your horse pass the post first!
I can imagine it – just not for me
I commented, No time spent watching racing is ever wasted! It refused to upload, then when I pressed post, it said I had already made that comment, but nothing appeared!
He's certainly Wishy Washy.
We will never forget 'The Grovel'
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Trimdon Tone
7h
Hamas still starving the kids?
Ernest Nowell
Trimdon Tone
7h
Did you see the pictures on TV of those hordes of poor people clamouring for food ? As usual, with propaganda, the shots were taken directly at them. At the end of the clip the camera lifted to show the crowd was ten wide and three deep with open space and few people behind.. Entirely staged!!
Leo
Ernest Nowell
6h
It’s really strange. For TV purposes it always shows children in the age group of about 1-5 years old who, are definitely starving. However their older siblings and parents look reasonably fit and healthy.
If I was at all suspicious I might think that the parents were intentionally not feeding these younger children for propaganda purposes.
Yesterday it showed a father carrying a ‘starved to death’ baby wrapped in a cloth. It was 5 month old. No problem, its mother is pregnant again. Excellent family planning.
Intriguing
Ernest Nowell
7h
The best one is where the drone pans out and there is a school right next to the pallywood set and there's loads of kids playing and eating food from trestle tables.
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fred finger
"but you will definitely NOT be put up in my pad, no matter how big my welcome placard"
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Row, row, row your boat
Gently to the shore
If they're white, use your might
A British girl's your whore.
That one is just too near the truth.
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‘His’ dependents??
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Bullets are quicker…just sayin’!
Ah but….
Ropes are reusable.
Disused mineshafts are cheaper still.
Mugabe got away with it.
Captain Hindsight
8h
Jonathan Gullis is just on Talk, explaining how 80% of the current Tory MPs voted with Labour to block the Bill Cash amendments to the Rwanda bill which would has disapplied parts of the ECHR. That in a nutshell, is exactly why they are finished, as they cannot be trusted.
The Uniparty joining forces when expedient to do so. They all have to go.
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They were the first boat people as well..
I bet most of them wished they had never seen the UK.
'Night All;
Quality Work…….
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I wonder if police and military horses will rear up, as they do for "Pride"?
Will be interesting to see.
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Why did you ditch the St. George’s flag avatar?
I'm in a flux Sue, I default back to tanks, but I'll go to the St. George's Cross again.
Good stuff! I changed when I saw yours, and there you suddenly weren’t! 😁
I'm sticking to my Spitfire; was good enough to see off the Jerries, after all.
I'll stay with Charles Martel – the man who saved Europe from the devil-worshippers.
Miss your squirrel, Sam
But the red squirrels were driven out by the grey squirrels.
just for the avoidance of doubt, sugar gliders (although grey and squirrels) are not the same as grey squirrels
Ah, a Tottenham supporteress.
Always Have been, I use to go when Danny Blanchflower lead them out.
Those were their days!
Ah, Danny "Pass the hot milk please".
A great team.
I once went to White Hart Lane in the late seventies. There was a very good black player Garth Crooks. All the rest were white from memory.
They even had a player called John White in the early 60s.
Scottish lad he was unfortunately struck by lightning and died whilst playing golf.
The old stadium is long gone and the new one is rather magnificent.
I don't understand. What is a gammon gooner?
Has it any idea what it looks like?
These types don’t ‘do’ mirrors!
I've just spotted your new avatar, Sue Mac. I like it! And moving down a little, I see that both sosraboc and Guardian's Quitter have had the same idea.
Just emulating Giles Gran! You’re a trendsetter, Elsie!
Gypsys, trans and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town
They'd call us gypsies, trans and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
And lay their money down
Or not.
Clever, Mola
I do my best.
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The first horsebox was used to land a gamble. The well fancied horse was still down south just before his race in the north. As horses were walked to the course in those days his price drifted out as people thought he couldn't possibly win after walking all that way. In the event, he travelled in a horse-drawn box and won easily at long odds!
Now that is interesting! Thanks Conway!
https://jthltd.co.uk/the-first-horsebox-a-tale-of-guile-invention-and-ingenuity/
Oui, mais qu'est-ce que c'est on va manger?
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Another St George flag.
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A white supporter of the finest football club in England
No. it's a white supporter of Arse nal.
They are called Arse nal because Tottenham dog's breath are always behind them, sniffing.
Sick, but true…
Paleface
Crimea River
9h
If you take the lid off a jar of jam and leave it in the open swarms of pests will be attracted – free jam
It can be a nightmare but there is a simple solution
Put the lid back on and the pests will stop coming and go elsewhere
If you throw the pot of jam into the sea something will tidy up the contents and the jar might never be seen again.
We need all the help we can get.
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Weird. Is it just me, or did I catch a fleeting glimpse of Robert Bidochon?
Or a clone?
What a very strange cartoon.
Yes, it is – and so is the film (Belleview Rendezvue). I wanted to post a link to the whole thing, but none was available.
Good night all Nottlers a great evenings entertainment thank you all.
🤗
Sleep well. 😴
'Night, Eddy. Sleep well!
If it takes only the gentle swell of the sea in a secluded harbour or cove to make you queasy then don't watch this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdixN9o7rg
It's a shame that we can't just order up seas like those for the French foreshore at rubber boat launch…
A fast close pass by a destroyer would do the job.
From which country would we borrow Destroyer?
Ay, there's the rub.
Maybe Lammy could beg his best buddy Vance for the loan of one. The modern gas turbine driven ones are fast enough to deliver quite a "swell".
Ay, there's the rub.
Maybe Lammy could beg his best buddy Vance for the loan of one. The modern gas turbine driven ones are fast enough to deliver quite a "swell".
Nice avatar pic Sos!
Brings back too many memories of waking up in your bunk as it feels like you're falling off your sleeping branch. Apparently it's a deep memory of when we used to sleep in the trees for safety. Oo oo!
Ah, Vomiting Veronika!
MS Venus Bergen to North Shields to Bergen around about 1970s, known as the Vomiting Venus!
Sister ship was the Jupiter. According to many, the Venus was a really awful ship!
New avatar?
Twas on the good ship Venus,
By God you should have seen us,
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast the Captain's penis.
The captain of this lugger,
He was a dirty bugger,
He wasn't fit to shove shit
From one place to another.
The captain's wife was Mabel.
Whenever she was able,
She'd fornicate the second mate
Upon the galley table.
etcetera etcetera etcetera…
Temp today has been a steady 85F or 30C pretty much all day. It probably won't start dropping until the sun gets low on the horizon. Not that humid, though. Inside a steady 25C, and low humidity. The A/C has been only running very intermittently, a byproduct of plenty of insulation. The installation was designed for a target 100F (38C) outside summer temperature and a 0F, or -18C winter temp. Just as well when my daughter turns up, she sets the thermostat down to about 20C in summer – and still complains of feeling hot.
Goodnight, all. I'm turning in. Have an early start and a busy day tomorrow.
Good Night Conners – and Kadi and Winston.
And that is me also off to bed.
Goodnight all.
Anyone still up? My dinner party went well & everyone seemed to enjoy it. Lots of chat and good company. The slow roasted lamb was good too.
Good night 🌙 😴
Well, chums, it's time for me to climb the stairs to Bedfordshire. Good Night to you all. Sleep well, and hope to see you all tomorrow morning.
Good morning, all – Sunday’s new page is here .
Thank you Geoff and a good morning to you.
Many would say she will reap a very bitter harvest but I am sure one can be sure, it will be her last.
The whole set up ,as with their partners in criminality the tories in name only, are making hay while the sun shines.
I'm curious to know where all the gold teeth, hair, clothing is squirreled away.
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